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Anatole Beck & David Fowler—A Pandora's Box of Non-Games (1969)
“Today [1969], the centre of Game Theory is occupied by the theory of cooperative games, in which it is not yet known what an answer would be, much less how to find one… In addition, we will exhibit some things which are almost certainly games, except that they are so ephemeral, so indistinct, that they still defy analysis.”
Who says you can only lose the game? Something about tracking down its probable creators and their radical ideas for “non-games” smells like winning. Some of the “non-games” here appear in real games as sub-problems: something like “Come To Dinner” occurs in interrupt timing in Magic: The Gathering.
